Sketches and Scratches- An online sketchbook by Nivi Alroy

A piece about my work at the Tel Aviv Art and Design blog

2011-05-07T10:06:00.000-07:00

Nivi Alroy, The Promising Artist Award 2010, Israel.
Posted: April 28th, 2011 ˑ Filled under: Art, Exhibition Tel Aviv, Israel Art and design ˑ No Comments

Award Committee 2011:

Igal Ahouvi | Art Collector – Chairman of the Award Committee
Jessica Morgan | The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London
Edna Moshenson | Independent Curator, Tel Aviv
Igael Tumarkin | Artist, Israel
Shay Rosen | Head of the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection
Sarit Shapira | Curator of the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection

Nivi is an Israeli artist, currently based in New York.

She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts.

“My work deals with the tension between intimacy of private domains, weather bodies, living environments or communities and the intrusive forces

threatening them. I explore the changing relationship between outer and inner spaces : the interior parts of structures or even the paper itself erupt, exposing an intimate moment”.

Food chain and Fresh Paint 2011.

Each year, the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection presents a Prize of 20,000 NIS to the Most Promising Artist at Fresh Paint Art Fair. The winner is selected from the independent artists participating in the fair for his or her overall artistic achievements so far, as well as for showing the most promise and potential for the future. The winner gets a solo show at the fair, the following year. The announcement of the winner is made at the opening of the art fair.

Fresh Paint 3′s Most Promising Artist award went to Nivi Alroy, who will present a solo exhibition “Food Chain” in Fresh Paint 4. Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman

Nivi Alroy – born in 1978, lives and works in Tel Aviv. B.A. graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and M.A. graduate of the School of Visual Arts, New York.

“My work process begins in the printmaking workshop, where I capture fragments of mundane life and their fragile moments.

Through the making of mono-prints I create abstract renderings of construction materials and sites, trying to break apart the hierarchies of residential environments. I then build sculptural objects made of materials from the construction sites of demolished houses.

Later, I imbed the mono-prints into the structural objects to create environments that are simultaneously exposed to and hidden from the viewer.”

“Nivi Alroy, an interdisciplinary artist, is once more a star. Last year, she was awarded the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection’s Most Promising Artist Award, a prize that included a solo exhibition at this year’s event. And here it is: Food Chain, another distinctive presentation.

Unlike most younger-generation artists, Alroy has already decided on the direction she wants to go. In the last few years in New York and Paris she has being showing installations whose themes are derived from microbiology. In this instance, her main thrust is not only the vulnerability of private lives and spaces in relation to outside forces or situations that come to destroy them, but also the way that life nevertheless goes on, subject to different laws.”

ANGELA LEVINE.

Apoptosis, Remeeded Wood, cement, mono print, chip-board, 2007.

HONORS AND PRIZES

A.I.R GALLERY The center for advocating women in the visual arts, Chelsea, New York
2008-2009
The recipient of the 2008-2009 residency award

GUEST ARTIST AND LECTURER : The U.N. conference center.
The African American women convention.
Artist talk and presentation of a recent body of work
in relation to the socio-political state in the Middle
East convention, 2007-2008

THE FRIDA E. ISICOFF AWARD 2007 : The winner of an award given every two years for
an outstanding achievement in the thesis project at
the School of Visual Arts.

THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS 2006,2007 : The alumni award

AICF GRANT 2005-2007 : The American-Israel cultural foundation award for young artists
Awarded the America-Israel cultural foundation Scholarship for an MFA degree

THE SHARET FOUNDATION GRANT 2003 : America-Israel Grant for young artists
Awarded the highly competitive America-Israel
Cultural Foundation Grant for young artists

BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN, JERUSALEM 2001-2003 : “Bezalel” high distinction award.

Photos from 'Food Web'

2011-05-03T12:14:00.001-07:00

Here are some excerpts from the madness of the Ahuvi most promising artist award show, at the Fresh paint art fair. I want to thank Tami Katz Frieman,, th ecurator of the show for this wonderful adventure

Photos from 'Food Web

2011-05-03T12:14:00.000-07:00

Review on my show

2011-04-07T04:53:00.000-07:00

Here is a review on my award show at the Fresh Paint art fair in Tel Aviv.
It's on until this Saturday, Come by, see the show and say hello!
(http://www.midnighteast.com/mag/?p=11504)
Food chain and Fresh Paint
6 APRIL 2011 ONE COMMENT
WRITTEN BY: ANGELA LEVINE
A 32-dunam space – once housing Bezeq’s warehouses – is the charmless South Tel Aviv location for the fourth round of Fresh Paint, a four day Contemporary Art Fair where, alongside booths occupied by some 30 well known galleries with their stable of artists, a new generation of artists are strutting their stuff.

Nivi Alroy, an interdisciplinary artist, is once more a star. Last year, she was awarded the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection’s Most Promising Artist Award, a prize that included a solo exhibition at this year’s event. And here it is: Food Chain, another distinctive presentation.

Unlike most younger-generation artists, Alroy has already decided on the direction she wants to go. In the last few years in New York and Paris she has being showing installations whose themes are derived from microbiology. In this instance, her main thrust is not only the vulnerability of private lives and spaces in relation to outside forces or situations that come to destroy them, but also the way that life nevertheless goes on, subject to different laws.

Dripping City, animated piece, 2011

As Tami Katz-Frieman, curator of this exhibition, points out Alroy completed all the works on exhibit – two sculptural installations and an animation piece backed up by brush paintings – well before the massive Tsunami swept north-western Japan. And yet, if one views photographs of this disaster showing water engulfing whole communities, buildings collapsing and spewing out the contents of people’s homes, one realizes just how topical Alroy’s themes have become.

Her animated piece Dripping City, viewed through a slit in a wall and comprising a wall drawing and a video loop, features an unending chain of catastrophe: a ‘moving’ stairway of miniature furniture and domestic equipment tumbling from a roof top into a bucket only to rise again.

Detail from Wave Land, wood, porcelain and mixed media, 2010-2011

Medusa Gigantean, one of her two mixed media sculptures is named for a mushroom-shaped jelly fish with tentacles 40 feet long; an image that Alroy reproduces in porcelain in the form of an oozing white shape, with its feelers constructed from wires and cables. This voracious creature wraps itself around clumps of houses, shutters and other household objects, all meticulously constructed from hundreds of matches and popsicle sticks. Ignoring boundaries, it also encroaches on a private space as represented in the gallery by an old armchair. From this point on, subject to some unknown impetus, parts of this installation, now known as Wave Land, ‘grow’ upwards again, creating a new anti-gravitational system that abandons the normal order of things.

Alroy’s second installation Chacun Pour Soi (Everyone for Himself), is based on a popular 1864 painting by French artist Philippe Rousseau showing a bitch nursing her puppies, but, at the same time, nosing into a basket filled with dirty plates and the remains of a meal. The porcelain bulldog in Alroy’s three dimensional version is almost identical to the animal featured in her exhibit in last year’s Fresh Paint 3. But then, its head stuck into a box served as a metaphor for an outer force invading a private space. On this occasion, a bitch is suckling a puppy, her head buried in a sack that doesn’t contain food, but the pitiful remains of some town of city, perhaps all that remains after an ecological disaster. This is an intriguing exhibition, and one looks forward, once again, to Alroy’s further development of her fascinating themes.

ANGELA LEVINE

Fresh Paint # 4 2011 will take place at The Botanic Garden site, by Reality Fund, 51 Ben Zvi Street, next to the Abu Navot garden from April 5 – 9, 2011. Admission is 35 NIS and includes entry to the Fresh Paint Salon on a space-available basis. The Bloomfield Stadium parking lot is recommended, and Dan Bus Lines reaching the area are: 92, 84, 154, 119, 41, 2, 1. Opening hours are: April 5, 6, & 7 from 17:00 – 22:00, April 8 from 11:00 – 19:00, and April 9 from 10:00 – 22:00.

Coming up! Food Chain, a solo show during the Fresh Paint art fair, Tel Aviv

2011-03-21T03:08:00.000-07:00

I'm working vigorously towards my new installation, as part of the Ahuvi award I received last year. The studio is in a chaotic state. I really hope that something great will come out of it. Here are some photos of work in progress, taken in my studio...
come by to the art fair between March 5th to March 9th and see the finished work!

Rear Window, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv- a group show

2011-02-16T06:11:00.000-08:00

I'm taking part in a really nice group show in Tel Aviv, curated by the lovely Ravit Harari.
Please find details above.
I'd love to see you at the opening on Thursday, 17.2 @ 20:00

The Triangle Workshop, New York 2010

2011-02-07T07:01:00.000-08:00

I spent a couple of outstanding weeks in the company of artists from all over the world.
I met some fascinating people and had an opportunity to create a project in the framework of the workshop. I created smaller versions of the sculptures I'm working on for my upcoming show, an compiled a site specific installation.
It was so much fun! Here are some images:

And Michal Heiman and I also created a site specific installation

2010-10-24T07:57:00.000-07:00

The project was entitled Shlishit
It was compiled of a movie Michal directed in which I participated, three of my sculptures where we embedded extracts taken from the movie and drawings we created throughout the course of making the movie.

OK, let me try and start from the Art Fair in May...

2010-10-24T07:34:00.000-07:00

...So during the Fresh Paint art fair in May in Tel Aviv I was super surprised to receive the Ahuvi most promising
artist award! as part of this price, I'm working towards a solo show to be exhibited in the next art fair this April.
Here are some photos from the art fair:

It has been a while...

2010-10-24T07:15:00.001-07:00

It has been a long time since I last posted an entry.
I really have a good excuse. I promise.
I'll try to post some updates regarding this long, silent period and be more disciplined blogwise
in the future.

Fresh Paint 2010

2010-04-22T06:11:00.001-07:00

Here is some of the work that I'll show in the next Fresh Paint Art fair

Wow.

2010-04-22T06:06:00.000-07:00

I'm going through an anti climax, after I spoke in front of 2000 people last night, at the Pecha Kucha event in Tel Aviv.
All the preformers were extremely inspiring. I especially enjoyed meeting the humble Adam(Know hope) and Gurit (studio junction). Thank you, Anat and Itay, for inviting me to show my work.

Here's a short article about me (it's in Hebrew)

2010-04-22T05:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,610,209,48044,.aspx

אוריגאמי ענק, וידאו על בניינים ואנשים שמתחרים במירוץ לארנונה - אירוע האמנות פצ'ה קוצ'ה התשיעי יתקיים ב-21 באפריל, ויביא כבכל שנה מקבץ מעניין ומגוון של אמנים מכל התחומים. למשתתפים מוגדרים כללים נוקשים - עליהם להציג את יצירותיהם במשך שש דקות וארבעים שניות בדיוק, כאשר בזמן זה עליהם להציג 20 דימויים, כשאורך הצגת כל אחד מהם הוא 20 שניות בלבד.
על מנת שתוכלו להתכונן למאורע, נכיר לכם בכל יום את אחד מהאמנים המשתתפים, והפעם - ניבי אלרואי

מי אני: ניבי אלרואי היא אמנית רב תחומית שחזרה לארץ רק לפני שבועיים אחרי מסע בין שבע שנים בחו"ל. בין השאר היא למדה בניו-יורק ובסדנת תחריט בפריז בה עברו גם פיקאסו וג'קאמוטי. בעצתו של חנוך פיבן, מי שהיה המנטור שלה, היא חברה בניו-יורק לאמנית מקומית שהפכה אותה ממאיירת לפסלת ואמנית מיצב.
מה אני עושה:"העבודות שלי משלבות פיסול, מיצב וגם אנימציה, תחריט ואיור - כל אחד מהדברים שאספתי במסע שלי. כך למשל ארגנתי מיצב בתוך בריכה תעשייתית, או בתוך חלל שהיה מפעל לקופסאות במאה ה-19. אני "מכווצת" יחד את כל המדיומים האלה למשהו שהופך להיות נרטיב-ארכיטקטוני. בעצם אפשר להגיד שאני בונה עולמות, מעין סביבות מטאפוריות כאלה. בן הזוג שלי הוא מעדן ועוסק בביולוגיה מולקלרית, אז אני מאוד מושפעת מכל העניין של עולמות מיקרוסקופים".
מה אראה בפצ'ה קוצ'ה: "אני הולכת לספק הצצה לתהליך שלי שמתחיל ברישומים קטנים בסטודיו. המיצבים משלבים עולמות מומצאים, מחקרים ויזואלים של תופעות ביולוגיות, ועוד ועוד. ארצה להראות את כל הדרך עד שהרישומים הופכים לפסלים, סרטים ומיצבים"

Special project-Fresh Paint Art fair 2010, a collaboration with the incredible Michal Heiman!

2010-03-24T11:35:00.000-07:00

The 'Third' or in Hebrew,שלישית
is a site specific video installation that Michal Heiman and I had envisioned together.
Come and see it in Israel between May 5th-8th, in the Fresh paint contemporary art fair.
I will also show my work in the selected up and coming framework of the art fair.
Come by and see our work, it's going to be fun!

Sketches for a new project

2010-02-07T12:32:00.000-08:00

so maybe this will work better.

I didn't like this way of dialog that much...

Here is the way we envision the space

I've been working on a new collaboration lately.

It's really exciting but it's still somewhat of a secret. I'll add in the details once it will all be confirmed. in the meantime here are some of the process sketches for this video installation...

Oh, and this is what they wrote about Pixelville in the New York Magazine...

2010-02-06T16:43:00.000-08:00

'A gorgeous, playful, futuristic, somewhat sobering new-media show by two female Israeli artists who love and are perplexed by their nation in flux. Impeccable, vintage-looking graphic images and videos are projected across a room containing botanical-looking sculptural forms centered around a round white sandbox'.

Yey!

Split Ends-Artist talk about places of conflict, http://splitends-airgallery.blogspot.com/

2010-02-06T16:07:00.000-08:00

Join us on Saturday, 13th of February for the public panel I'm organizing, as part of the
A.I.R gallery fellowship. It will take place at Dumbo Arts center (you can also see Pixelville there)
For more information, please go here:
Splitends-airgallery.blogspot.com
Thanks!

2010-02-06T15:18:00.000-08:00

Pixelville, a site specific installation @ Dumbo Arts Center,

2010-02-06T15:10:00.000-08:00

In the very long time that past since I last regularly blogged the site specific installation,
Pixelville, in collaboration with Shirley Shor has come to life.
The show is on until February 22nd. The gallery is open Wednesday to Sunday. 12PM to 5PM
Here some info, from the sketch phase to the real thing...

A belated new year's resolution: I will post sketches in 2010. yes.

2010-02-06T14:45:00.000-08:00

Well, I know, It has been ages since I last posted material to the blog.
The good part is that a lot has happened and I have tons of stuff to post.
I try really hard to be consistent from now on. Here goes,

A new Collaboration with Shirley Shor

2009-03-03T11:01:00.000-08:00

I recently started a collaboration with the new media artist, Shirley Shor, (http://www.shirleyshor.com/) towards a joint project.
After we met for a fruitful brain-storming, I came up with a couple of digital imaging sketches
for our future collaboration. Here are some of them...

2009-03-02T17:17:00.000-08:00

Foliage 2008, One of my pieces in the show...

I was invited by Yuko Nii to take part in the Woman Forward international exhibition in Wah Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

(http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2009/womenforward/)

The show is divided into two parts.
The first is showing artists born before 1950 and opens on March 7th
and the second part opens on April 25th and features artists born after 1950
I have four pieces in the second part, a drawing, a wall relief and two sculptures.
Here are the details

Special Guest Artists: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Toshiko Takaezu
plus Yoko Ono’s “Imagine Peace”

Part 1: March 7 – April 12; Opening Sat. Mar. 7, 4–6 pm

Liz Surbeck Biddle, Lili Bita, Hildy Burns, Janet Fish, Regina Granne, Amy Greenfield, Samia Halaby, Gloria Kennedy, Donna Moran, Carmen Porfido, Carol Quint, Kunie Sugiura, Cynthia Winika

Part 2: April 25 – May 31; Opening Sat. Apr. 25, 4–6 pm

Nivi Alroy, Bahar Behbahani, Elle Burchill, Rodriguez Calero (RoCa), Fei Cui, Andrea Cukier, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Soojung Hyun, Elodie Lauten, Alexandra Limpert, Leonor Mendoza, Olek, Yupin Pramotepipop, Shan Shan Sheng, Kumi Yamashita

Curated by Yuko Nii, Catalog available, with essay by Robert C. Morgan

See you there!

2009-02-26T11:32:00.000-08:00

Speaking of sketches and scratches, Here is some work in early stages.
The end result is still rather vague, but I promise, it will be finished by the end of the month.

Second Lives- The museum of Design, NYC

2009-02-17T15:43:00.000-08:00

If you happen to be in NY and you haven't seen this incredibly fun show in the Museum of design, Run to see it.
it's an exhilarating experience! I believe it ends in April.
here are some images

Terese Agnew Portrait of a Textile Worker 2005

Tara Donoven

Here is the link
http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse&currentrecord=1&page=search&profile=exhibitions&searchdesc=Current%20Exhibitions&searchstring=Current/,/greater%20than/,/0/,/false/,/true&action=advsearch&style=single&currentrecord=4

Process sketches

2009-02-17T15:16:00.000-08:00

Here are Some of the sketches I compiled in order
to figure out the flow of the installation in the gallery space.

Hello friends, I am currently working on my web site

2007-06-27T06:05:00.000-07:00

I hope it will be back really soon. In the mean time you can see some of my work here:

http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=902

and here:
http://artslant.com/global/artists/show/28970-nivi-alroy